Susan Taylor White was married to Paul White, who was the head of CBS before Edward Murrow, and they had a daughter Toni. Later, she and Paul separated but never divorced. Susan Taylor White died in 1981.
She wrote radio soap operas for eight years including Backstage Wife, Lorenzo Jones at the beginning of her career. During World War II she began writing documentaries. In 1942, she researched and produced a series called Our Secret Weapon for CBS with Rex Stout. She then started writing war documentaries for ABC that included Dark Decade, The Fifth Year, Decline and Fall, The Beach and the Desert, The Ghost of Benjamin Sweet, and 12 Crowded Months. She also wrote for Cavalcade of America and war programs for CARE. Peter Straus, at WMCA, started a series of documentaries called New World A-Comin' and in 1951 White wrote a program for that series on the blackmailing of the Chinese in the U.S. by Chinese communists called Letter from Hong Kong. Voice of America later picked up the program and in 1952, they hired her for the Near East, South Asia, and Africa Division. At Voice of America, she wrote several series including Operation Escape, Eyewitness, Age of the Atom, Heroes of America, Merlin the Storyteller, Let's Meet the Ladies, and Blacks in American History. In 1956, Merlin the Storyteller won the Ohio State Award for Educational Radio-Television Broadcasting in the Children and Youth category. She “officially resigned” from Voice of America in January 1979 but continued to write the Blacks in American History series.
She was also involved in activities other then scriptwriting. From 1941 through 1942, she was the Executive Director of Branches for Bundles for Britain, an international charitable organization that sent aid to Britain during World War II. At one time, there were 730 chapters which sent clothing and medical supplies to relieve the hospitals that were bombed. In 1946, she accepted the position of Vice Chair of the Executive Board of the Women's Division of the Independent Citizens' Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions. This organization later came under suspicion during the McCarthy years. In addition she taught a radio scriptwriting class for Lenox School in New York in 1948.
